• Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world
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    so trump just admitted he was there and knew everything? Because the only way to know who isnt in the epstein files, is to know who DO deserve to be in the Epstein Files, because trump witnessed, saw and knew everything that happened on Epstein island apparently and even took part in it probably, why else would he not turn to the police with that knowledge tf

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    When YOU are a chief suspect, Donny 2 Weeks, then YOU don’t get to decide who deserves to be on that list. It’s not hard, magats !

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    That didn’t happen.

    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

    And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

    And if it is, that’s not my fault.

    And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

    And if I did, you deserved it.

    His statement mixes lines 1 and 4 in the poem.

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    Is MAGA buying this?

    I mean, I’m sure plenty are, but what about the ones who were up in arms a few weeks ago when he said the files wouldn’t be released? Have they all shut up and gotten back in the clown car?

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      Is MAGA buying this?

      Yes, completely. He’s going to walk and people in power will use the legal system to put down any pushback.

      All of this was obvious from the get-go. He was running to keep himself out of prison and to enrich himself. The country fell for it, and we have no idea how bad it’s going to get.

      As always, I hope I am completely insane and a stark raving conspiracist.

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      They’ve been manipulated and have allowed it to be made a part of their core identity - so yes, from sunk cost fallacy, to stockholm syndrome, to abusive relationship, to personality cult, to just plain ignorance and proud of it, profiled by Big Data and fed and cordoned off to their particular slaughterhouse of a social network bubble, they will be increasingly easy to manipulate the more distance there is between reality and their perception of it.

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      As someone who is in a Discord with some MAGA tards … Yes, yes they are. They’re cucked so hard by Trump it’s sad.

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    Here’s how that works…my cousin doesn’t deserve to be in those files, because my cousin wasn’t there! Epstein and the other people in those sex parties were there, so they should deserve to be in the files. That’s how “deserve to be” works in this context.

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      “Wait, no, no list. Well there is an Epstein list but it’s a hoax list. A huge tremendous hoax by the crooked evil Demogorgons. No, the democrats.
      I watched stranger things.
      My uncle, who was a script writer at Yale, great guy, best scripts, he said the strangest thing was to trust anything that a democrat would say.
      No hoax, no Epstein. No list. There is a hoax. Fake news. MAGA. Thank you for your attention to this muttered!!”

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        There’s no list, and it was made by the democrats, and some of the people on it don’t deserve to be on it, but Bill Clinton is on it too, so that’s why I won’t release the list that doesn’t exist.

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    Yeah he really wants to get out in front of the eventual revelation that he’s shockingly on the list. We definitely already know that though so one again taco don has shit more than his pants.

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    Bill Clinton was on his plane and went to the island supposedly 28 times. I don’t want to bring that up frankly,” Trump said while bringing it up.

    Ok, that is just top notch comedic journalism.

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      Right? Headline should really read “Trump admits Epstein list is real, defends some of the people on it.”

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        He is really worried about it - for sure. The amount of cover fire insanity has increased dramatically. I just can’t believe that out of all those FBI guys no one yet has leaked anything.

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        I think the list was really the fly log, and black notebook.

        Those already were published.

        But FBI has 700GB of files that trump promised to make available. Now that he closed the investigation workout charging anytime (Maxwell had trial during Biden) then there shouldn’t be problem to release it, shouldn’t it?

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        No, he’s projecting that he shouldn’t be in them but is… even though they don’t exist…

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      Few weeks back the GOP led house oversight committee voted to subpoena the Epstein files. DNC members won the vote with GOP members who had publicly demanded the files release. The POS GOP chairman tried his slimiest to ignore the rest of the committe but was eventually brow beaten into submission -like the pathetic worm he is.

      This week they received the first batch of files and are reviewing them.

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        Thanks for the synopsis, my fellow lemming.

        I wonder if them knowing the list of names makes this less likely to come out. If they see some big donor on there, it could be they start pretending there isn’t a list, too.

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      They appear file-like.

      It’s a matter of interpretation.

      I was helping at a restaurant when I asked “What does C.C. mean on this order?”

      The waitress said, “Coca-Cola.”

      The hostess said, “Credit Card.”

      The cook said, “Chocolate cake.”

      The bartender said, Canadian Club."

      The accountant said, “Carbon Copy.”

      I always thought it meant cubic centimeters.

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    He’s the worst liar in history. Whenever he talks like this it turns out he’s guilty of something. Every fucking time.

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      The fact that he’s gotten away with every single one tells me we need to redefine the “worst” in history. He’s extremely fucking good at lying, it’s his only reliable metric.

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      That hat might literally be the most joke-tier, unbelievable, ridiculous thing ever in political history. Just the sheer blatant stupidity of it is hard to even comprehend. Like. Literally no country in Earth has their leader doing something that ridiculous. I remember back when the world used to laugh at the bizarro propaganda and behavior in North Korea. But even Kim Jong Un is doing nothing so ridiculous as wearing a hat like that. Can you imagine it? Him in some hat saying “I’m right about everything all the time hahaha losers”. Even in NK they know that’s ridiculous, they know it looks stupid. A population full of people born and raised in multiple generations of propaganda, almost entirely isolated from the world, and even the hard-core kool-aid drinkers would see that and feel their respect for their leader falter. Not all Americans are dumb, but the dumb subset of Americans may really be the dumbest of any group on Earth right now. Like I get that the hat is a “joke” and he’s “trolling”, which makes it slightly less stupid than if it was meant in earnest, but the thing is, like any multi-layer irony, it simultaneously is and isn’t what it pretends to be. I cannot imagine a real human being looking at that hat and thinking anything positive about it. Yet my fellow Americans continue to move my bar for stupidity deeper and deeper to the core of the Earth. Trump has done sooooooo much stupid shit yet somehow this hat manages to take the crown. It’s not the worst thing he’s done, but my god, it’s so stupid. You couldn’t even write a more farcical joke to make fun of it if you tried. How could you parody that hat? It’s already reached the apex.

      /Rant